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Series · 1937-1997
Part of Fonds Père Clarence d'Entremont
La série est constituée de 144 dossiers qui sont classés par noms propres : Amirault, Arsenault, Aucoin, Babin, Barillot, Barr, Barteaux, Bastarache, Belliveau, Benoit, Beveridge, Blanchard, Blauvelt, Bonenfant, Boniface, Boudreau, Bourgeois, Bourneuf, Bourque, Boutier, Breau, Brown, Burke, Burridge, Castin, Charest, Chartier, Clermont, Collins, Comeau, Cormier, Corporon, Cottreau, Cyr, Damours, D’Auteuil, Degannes De falaise, d’Entremont, Deslauriers, Deveau, Devilliers, Devoe, Dingle, Doiron, Doty, Doucet, Douville, Dugas, Dulain, Duon, Dupuis, Durkee, Eno-Enault, Fitzgerald, Forest, Fortier, Fougère, Frontain, Frost, Gagnon, Gaudet, Gautrot, German, Girouard, Godin-Bellefontaine, Goguen, Goodwin, Goudreau, Granger, Guidry, Guillaut, Harding, Harris, Hébert, Hemeon, Hipson, Hubbard, Jacquard, Kenney, Landry, Lanoue, Larkin, LeBlanc, Famille de Honoré LeBlanc, LeFebvre, Léger, LeJeune, Lennox, LePoupet, Lorgéré, Maffre, Maillet, Malone, Martell, Martin, Mazerolle, McCarthy, McCauley, McCullough, McDonnell, McLaughlin, McManus, Melanson, Mius (sud N.-É.), Mius (golfe du St-Laurent), Mius (en général), Monbourquet, Morin, Morris, Moulaison, Murat, Newell, Patten, Pellerin, Petitpas, Poirier, Pothier, Rice, Richard, Robbins, Robichaud, Rodrigue, Russell, Rust, Saint-Pierre, Samson, Saulnier, Scott, Seeley, Shand, Shaw, Smith, Stuart, Surette, Thériault, Thibault, Thibodeau, Trahan, Vacon, Van Horn, Ward, Wrayton, [Sans titre], [Sans titre - Cimetières Massachusetts]. 1998.3-f11
Community activities
Series · 1976-2008
Part of Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds
Series forms part of the Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds and consists of records relating to activities and events which the Society and its members organized or participated in, including public displays of historical artifacts, society parties, the dedication of a local war memorial, and the Chezzetcook Acadian celebrations of 2004. Series contains guest books, photographs of events, programs, brochures, correspondence, notes, an article, a newsletter, a videocassette, and other material. Series also contains entries in two competitions organized by the society for local grade six and seven students; one for a design for the Society’s seal and one for a 500-word essay on a local historical topic. In addition, series includes correspondence, clippings and other material related to society members’ involvement in an early 1980s movement to prevent the government from running Highway 107 through the Chezzetcook Marshes.
Series · c.1911-1942
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of records related to Alexander ‘Sandy’ and Cora (Harpell) Myers, who was the sister of Grace’s mother. Cora was born on January 26, 1896 in West Jeddore and became a teacher in the early 1900s. She and her husband Sandy (1893-1957) owned the Salmon River House where Grace lived for several years following her retirement. A note found among the records indicates that they were used by Grace to help create the publications produced by the Marine Highway Historical Society. The series includes a photograph of Cora Harpell’s class at Ostrea Lake School in 1915 with the names of the students; a scrapbook containing clippings of songs; stories; and the prize winners of a matrimonial letter contest featuring Cora’s entry, No Fake Gentleman. Also included are various clippings regarding her school in Ostrea Lake; her graduating class from the Provincial Normal College in 1914; as well as handwritten poems and stories. Series also includes the lyrics to the Normal College school song, an application for a teacher’s license in 1912 that was rejected because she was too young, and a teacher’s license issued in 1914, as well as an earlier letter from a friend in1911. Cora died in Musquodoboit Harbour on February 24, 1995 at the age of 99. Series also contains receipts including postal and remitters’ receipts, invoices, ration forms and coupons, product labels, local business letterhead and advertisements, coupons, tax assessments, a tax notice, and enumeration records. Also included is correspondence to Sandy Myers from people coming to Salmon River House, a Christmas card from Arnold Logan, a Guide’s License, and an order form for a vest. Accession number: 2010.032
Correspondence
Series · 1881-1956
Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Series forms part of the Annabell (Sitman) Ells fonds and consists of correspondence with Mr. and Mrs. John O. Siteman, Hugh Fraser Siteman, and various other correspondents. Like many people in the early 1900s, Annabel collected postcards. The series includes a number of postcards depicting German soldiers and other German photographs written between 1910 and 1920 and predominantly written in German. Series also contains a large number of postcards sent to and from Annabel Ells from Boston, California, Scotland and other locations as well as other miscellaneous letters and cards from various individuals including correspondence with clients for whom Annabel was conducting research and responses from people to whom she had made genealogical inquiries. Also includes a list of the negatives held by NSARM and a piece of the wedding dress of John Siteman’s first wife Susan which was found in an envelope addressed to him in the Magdalene Islands a year after their marriage. Accession number: 2013.066
David Renton
Series
This accession consists of miscellaneous records relating to David Renton's acting and directing career, including publicity and performance photographs, correspondepence, contracts, and appointment calendars and diaries. There are also publicity photographs of Karine Renton`s father announcing the CHNS radio program Now it Can Be Told. MS-3-23.2014-003
Education
Series · 1932-1962
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of the minute book of the West Jeddore School trustees from 1944 to 1959, scripts of pageants that may have been performed in schools, and a periodical entitled The Canadian Red Cross Junior, Vol. XXIII, No. 10 dated 1944, which reflects Grace Forsythe’s involvement with the Red Cross Society and her efforts to establish Junior Red Cross Societies in her schools. Series also contains three books created by Grace’s students including a scrapbook of clippings of famous people created by a grade seven class in 1953, a book of stories and drawings entitled Our Story Book created by students in 1961, and a book of stories of rescue created by grade six students in 1962. Also included is a book of lesson plans written by Grace in summer school in Truro in 1942 and an article containing the autobiographical account of Dr. G. G. Sedgewick entitled, A Secret Chapter in the History of Education, which recounts the trials of a new teacher in Oyster Pond in 1900. In addition, series contains a typed copy of Grace Forsythe’s memoirs of her teaching career together with a scrapbook of photographs of students from 1932-1957, illustrating her story, and two certificates recording her completion of grades nine and ten which also list subjects studied and grades received. Accession number: 2010.032
Events
Series · 2000-2006
Part of Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society fonds
Series forms part of Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society fonds and consists of records related to events hosted at Memory Lane Heritage Village. Series contains correspondence, notes, posters, press releases, reports, participant/guest lists, invitations, meeting minutes, questionnaires, receipts, instructions, menus, seating plans, itineraries, photographs, video, and other material. Series is arranged into ten sub-series for different events and types of events: the annual antique car show, the annual antique show and tell, the annual model boat & ship festival, the Eastern Shore Homecoming, Dominion Day events, heritage dinners, weddings and family reunions, irregular events, the annual Atlantic Canada Harmonica Festival, and volunteer appreciation dinners. Accession numbers: 2010.014, 2012.017
History
Series · ca.1947, ca.2007
Part of Salmon River House fonds
Series forms part of the Salmon River House fonds and consists of two accounts of the history of the Salmon River House. One account was written circa 1947 by Jean Faulkner as part of a grade ten school assignment. The handwritten account discusses the original owners of the home, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Warnell, and the subsequent owners, Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Myers, who purchased the home in 1920 and established an inn. Included with this essay is a photograph of the house. The second account was written by an anonymous author on the occasion of the Salmon River House celebrating eighty-seven years of providing service to the travelling public. The account discusses the Warnell family who supposedly built an original cottage there in 1853 which was incorporated into the current structure. It also discusses the period in which it was owned by Sandy and Cora Myers and later when it was owned and operated by Adrien Blanchette, his first wife Norma, and later his second wife Elisabeth Schwarzer. In addition, it discusses the award winning Lobster Shack Restaurant that the Blanchettes established at Salmon River House. Accession number: 2013.041
Series · [ca. 1910]-[1984?]
Part of Helen Jennex fonds
Series forms part of Helen Jennex fonds and consists of material documenting Jennex’s activities as an historical researcher, collector of historical items, and member of the Eastern Shore heritage and museum community. Series is arranged into six sub-series, including illustrations, church drawings, publication layouts, community research, photographs, and publications. Accession number 2009.039
Series · [ca. 1900-1944]
Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of one business card for Pringle & London, suppliers of decorative leaded glass including ecclesiastical stained glass and memorial windows as well as importers of antique, cathedral and opal glass. They were located in Toronto and may have been employed by Judge Frederick Montye ‘Monty’ Morson (1853-1944) to supply a new window for the Clam Harbour United Church. Judge Morson stayed at the Stoddard Hotel in Clam Harbour every summer for thirty years and donated a memorial window to the church. Series also includes one black and white photograph of Judge Morson c. 1936. Accession number: 2013.010